Couple Married In Hospital Waiting Room After Bride Was Given Just 48hours To Live

According to a report on Dailymail, a 22-year old grieving widower has told how he and his wife were married in a hospital waiting room after she was told she had only two days to live. Jack Beniston, had been supporting his girlfriend Michelle O'Connor in her battle with cancer when the couple were given the devastating news. She was first told she had cervical cancer just two months after she gave birth to the couple's daughter.

She was later told she had just 48 hours to live, prompting Mr Beniston to propose and the couple to organise a wedding in Peterborough City Hospital where she was being treated. The newlyweds spent just four weeks together before Mrs Beniston tragically passed away.

Mr Beniston said:

'The doctors said we have the facilities to marry you here today if that's what you want, and instantly I said "let's go for it". I managed to get both our families there and some close friends, which was lovely. 

The nurses finished their shift at five and they spent the next hour dressing up the room, you would never imagine it was a waiting room.
'It was amazing seeing Michelle walk down the aisle, she looked beautiful. It was a lovely wedding. It was gut-wrenching but it made Michelle happy and that's all I wanted.'

The newly-weds spent their wedding night in hospital...

'I couldn't leave her, that would have been heart-breaking. The hospice gave us a really nice room and dressed it up as a honeymoon suite on our first night there. People would say to me why don't you go home for a night, but there was no way I was missing out on any moments we had left together.

Describing the day they received the devastating news, Mr Beniston said:

'I got a phonecall at work and they said she's looking bad and I should come in. I got there and they said she's really gone downhill and they didn't expect her to make the weekend. I just couldn't believe it really, it didn't seem real. I found out it was terminal about a week earlier, which was just awful.'

Source: MailOnline